As a leader, you’re not over a what, but a who. To lead is to influence others in a way that helps them grow personally, professionally and spiritually. Leadership is fundamentally about influencing people.

What's On Your Plate?

One trait we often look for in leaders is the ability to multitask. Smart, capable leaders can handle multiple tasks, priorities and decisions at once, right? No, actually, that’s wrong. There is a limit to the number of things any leaders can process at once.

The High Ways of God

There are aspects of the Father that go above our heads. Though we can’t possibly know all the ways of God, we can know, in a broad sense, how God’s ways are higher our ways.

Four Ways to Invest in People Today

One of the greatest investments you can make as a leader will not be found in a stock selection, or emerging technologies, or foreign markets. A leader’s most powerful commodity is his relationships with people.

What Is Christian Leadership?

Once a person surrenders their life to Christ, faith and leadership cannot be separated. It is “baked in”. The difference in Christian leadership is that faith takes point for the leader.

The Solution To Being Unfulfilled

Fulfillment is the happiness or satisfaction that comes from developing one’s own abilities or character. A leader who knows his talents and skills are being put to good use and that he is growing personally and professionally has the mindset that he is stewarding his life well.

The Danger of Checking Out

An alarming trend is younger workers checking out. Whether from burnout, mental health issues, boredom or self-isolation, more and more workers and leaders and disengaging. What does the Bible say about it?

How Wise Leaders Use Their Time

There is great wisdom in the profitable use of time. For a leader, this takes a certain amount of discipline, and a purposeful desire to use his days for positive and impactful tasks and relationships.

22 Rules for Leaders

Don’t you wish someone had a set of hard-and-fast rules for leadership? If you just did these things then success is assured! Rules, though, typically come from the hard lessons of experience.

Gaining Direction for Life

Most workers can easily define what they do on a daily basis. Much harder is to determine why they are doing it, beyond the obvious facet of earning money.

How to Let Go of the Past

Most people carry a load of baggage through life. Past mistakes, relationships, decisions, circumstances weigh us down. Here’s how to let go.

Leading Through Prayer

Your leadership can not only benefit from prayer, but you can use prayer as a tool to develop others.

Four Things to Pray About at Work

We overlook the promises God makes with prayer. God says that He hears our prayers. God says that He answers and acts based on our prayers. Prayer indeed is a powerful and personal tool for a faith-centered leader.

Things Kids Learn From Dad

Your time with your children on a daily basis shows them more than anything that they are valued. No friend, or interest, or goal, is going to give them greater sense of value than you will.

Clarity of Purpose

Do you know why you do what you do? Only around 25% of Americans adults cite having a clear sense of what makes their lives meaningful.

When To Say No

Succumbing to the urge to avoid conflict and confrontation, we will often say “yes” to things we have no time for, that will take us away from more important priorities, or that will engage us in activity that has no real meaning for us.

Encouragement Empowers Leadership

When you give and receive encouragement, it helps to put these things into perspective, to manage disappointment, and to celebrate accomplishment when it does come. Encouragement strengthens an individual emotionally.

A Daily Investment in Leadership

Your daily time alone with God and study of the Bible is the key to growing in leadership. Yet only 45% of Christians say they read the Bible “at least once a week”, while a third say they engage in the Scriptures “seldom or never”.

How God Chooses Leaders

Finding, hiring, choosing and developing leaders is a key facet of leadership itself. A true leader is tasked with replicating himself in others. Where do great leaders come from?

Leadership Lessons from the Tower of Babel

There’s an interesting story in Genesis 11 that speaks directly to leadership, pride, and ego. It’s a warning to all of mankind of the dangers of ambition.

Passion or Paycheck?

Whether you view your work as simply a way to provide for your household or a means to live out your passions, is really up to you. In the Bible we see both types of people and we read instruction that endorses both directions in life and work.

Should Anyone Be Led by You?

Are you a model leader? Consider whether anyone should be led by you. What does your leadership experience and execution bring to the table that is valuable and enhances the life and work of those in your sphere of influence?

10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation

Engaging people in productive conversation is a daily facet of leadership. But most conversations aren’t productive. We spend an average of 7.8 hours a day working, but only an average of 34 minutes communicating.

Everlasting

Real success is not measuring what you amass, but rather counting how you live, and what you leave as a legacy to those who are following behind you.

Men Have Nothing to Fear

All men are born with a sense of fear. Some of these fears are innate and some are learned. Research shows that our innate fears include predators, pain, heights, rapidly approaching objects and ancestral threats like snakes and spiders.